"Qingqing?" Fei Bailing stood up and looked around, but she didn't see her sister.
"Running so fast?" she asked doubtfully.
After moving her body, she slowly walked towards the place where her sister usually hid.
Recently, she has always felt that there is something strange at home. The clan members have become less talkative, and they are all taciturn when they go out to work. They just complete the affairs step by step. The atmosphere in the big house is also a bit dull, and there is an indescribable sense of lethargy.
Just like today, the sun is shining brightly outside, but the house seems to be enveloped in a hazy fog, making people feel unclear.
"Qingqing?" Fei Bailing walked to a corner and poked her head behind the large water tank.
There was no one behind the water tank.
"It's not here?" She walked slowly again and soon came to a white stone statue.
"Qingqing!?" Fei Bailing suddenly looked behind the statue.
Still no one.
"It's not here either." She raised her eyebrows. My sister was hiding pretty well today.
squeak squeak squeak
Suddenly, a harsh sound of metal friction came from deep in the garden.
Fei Bailing narrowed her eyes and slowly followed the sound. After going around a few turns in the garden, a black swing with some rust appeared in front of her.
Fei Qingqing was sitting on it, swaying on the swing with her little feet.
"Sister, you found me!" Fei Qingqing smiled sweetly, her long silky hair was blown by the breeze, swaying gently, and she exuded a faint fragrance like flowers.
Fei Bailing walked over with a smile.
"Qingqing, did you secretly buy some perfume or something? You smell so good."
"Really?" Fei Qingqing said with a sweet smile, "Qingqing didn't buy anything, and she didn't smell anything."
"Really?" Fei Bailing reached out and Qingqing wanted to touch her sister's long hair.
Unexpectedly, my sister jumped off the swing and got into the flowers in a few clicks.
"Sister, come to me!" Her voice quickly followed the footsteps of little leather boots and disappeared.
Fei Bailing shook her head helplessly and could only follow.
Passing through the flowers, she heard hurried footsteps running out of the garden gate, and hurriedly followed them out of the garden.
"Sister, I'm going to the kitchen for a drink. Come find me." Fei Qingqing's white skirt flashed in the far corner.
Fei Bailing quickly followed.
"Stop running around, Qingqing." She always felt something was wrong. There seemed to be very few people at home today. Although her cousin mentioned that everyone was responsible for the screening and testing of new disciples of each sect.
But it seems that there are even a few servants and maids, which is a bit abnormal.
She felt vaguely uneasy. Following the direction of the sound, she walked all the way out of the yard of the main house and came to the kitchen area.
"Qingqing?" she called.
The kitchen area within the wall was empty, and there was still a faint smell of firewood in the air.
Fei Bailing walked slowly on the smoky grass, looking around, trying to find her sister. But no one responded, and Fei Qingqing didn't know where she had gone.
Suddenly she heard a small, noisy voice of children. Following the sound, she slowly walked through a courtyard wall and walked into another very strange courtyard.
She has never been to this other courtyard. It seems to be an area where other branches of the family live. In a large family like the Fei family, among the thousands of clan members, there are many clan members who have never met each other. Fei Bailing has been living in the Jiuda family
One of the problems in this area is that I can't even recognize my relatives in my own living area, let alone the areas outside.
The house became more and more deserted and empty. As I walked closer, not to mention the servants, I couldn't even hear the chirping of insects or birds. This made Fei Bailing feel a little worried.
She walked a few steps along the courtyard wall and soon saw a few children squatting in the corner of the courtyard from a distance, gathering together and whispering happily.
She breathed a sigh of relief and involuntarily moved closer to the children. There were more people there, and she always felt more energetic and safer.
"Hello, what are you playing? Have you ever seen such a big little girl passing by here?" Fei Bailing came closer and asked loudly to several children, while gesturing to her sister with her hands.
height.
"Little girl?"
"Little girl?"
"Little girl?"
"Little girl?"
Several children came together. With happy smiles on their faces, they looked at Fei Bailing neatly and kept repeating their calls.
"Little girl?"
"Little girl?"
"Little girl?"
Time and time again, the smiles on their faces remained unchanged, and their voices remained the same, like a recording that was constantly being replayed.
The children are getting closer and closer, and the smiles on their faces seem to be fixed. At first glance, they look bright and natural, but as time goes by, you will find that their expressions have not changed at all, and their eyes are bent.
The corners of his mouth were bent, motionless, as if completely stiff.
Fei Bailing was a little scared, and she stepped back. Her face turned pale.
Snap.
Suddenly she heard a subtle sound of leather boots hitting the ground not far away.
Immediately, the voices of the children in front of me began to change.
"little girl"
"little girl"
"Small"
Their voices are becoming more and more chaotic, distorted, and hazy. Many times, they are more like some kind of weird noise, or like a tape recorder with a cassette that has begun to distort and be interfered with.
Fei Bailing's eyes widened, and she could no longer hear what they were saying. She felt as if her ears were covered with a thick membrane, and she couldn't hear anything clearly. The children's voices were distorted,
Sometimes sharp, sometimes deep.
Suddenly, she saw a little black-haired girl in a white dress standing quietly behind one of the children.
The girl stood there quietly, her face covered by her long black hair. Fei Bailing could only vaguely feel that she was looking at her.
"Qingqing!" She recognized that it was the skirt worn by her younger sister Qingqing. She rushed up and tried to catch her.
But Qingqing turned around faster than she did, walked toward the exit from the yard, and disappeared into the hazy darkness outside in a few seconds.
It was too late for Fei Bailing to catch up, as she was blocked by the bodies of several children.
"Give me a moment!" she said anxiously, reaching out to push the child in front of her.
But strangely, her hand passed through the child's shoulder, and all the children's voices quickly faded and then disappeared quickly.
Fei Bailing looked around her again, and there was nothing there, no children, only fallen leaves covering the floor.
She was startled and took a few steps back, only to realize that the sky had dimmed at some point. The cold moonlight was mostly covered by the clouds, leaving only a little bit scattered.
There was no one in the whole yard except herself.
"Qingqing!!" She was anxious. Something was obviously wrong in the house, but Qingqing was still playing hide-and-seek with her. What if she encountered any danger?
She became more and more anxious and chased after Qingqing in the direction where she had just run away.
After walking through several yards, passing several gardens and ponds, there was no one in the entire house. Sometimes she could hear voices coming from the other side of the wall, the sound of someone talking, but when she walked past, there was no one there.
It seemed like everyone had just left.
This feeling made her more and more frightened. After searching for a long time, Fei Bailing finally looked around and ran towards her residence along the original road.
She wanted to find her father and ask him to mobilize manpower to find her sister. She also wanted to find out what happened at home and why there were so few manpower suddenly.
"There is an unusual smell steaming"
At the edge of the well, Lu Sheng poured the cold bucket of water directly over his head.
Wow!
The icy-cold well water rushed through his whole body, revealing his muscles as strong and twisted as tree roots in the moonlight.
The outline of the muscles is like steel, and the surface is covered with countless fine red lines like mesh patterns, which makes people intimidated at first sight.
Lu Sheng touched his upper body shoulders in the negative state and looked towards the direction of the county.
With his extremely keen five senses, he could faintly feel something swirling and twisting in the sky above the city. That thing was not demonic energy or yin energy. In other words, it was not caused by ghosts or monsters.
After the test was completed during the day, the elder of Qianyang Sect arranged for him to move into this independent courtyard.
On the second day, you will enter the secret realm of the sect and conduct the second round of testing.
Lu Sheng put down the bucket. The role he was playing now was that of an ordinary bloodline disciple who came out of the mountains and roughly learned some basic skills. He might be a descendant of a reclusive family, a descendant of a family's bloodline, or someone who was accidentally captured.
Ordinary people who are radiated by the magic weapon without knowing it.
No matter what the situation is, he shouldn't know too much. His overall strength on the surface is that of a Jie level, which is obtained by relying on his Jie level talent.
So when he does it, he tries to use the most basic moves. Because he shouldn't be proficient in other moves.
But the aura just now really made Lu Sheng look sideways.
For some reason, that aura reminded him a little of the tree root gate he had seen in Golden Square.
After taking a shower, Lu Sheng got dressed and entered the quiet room to rest. But in his heart, he remembered the place where his breath was steaming just now.
After a night of silence, he was woken up early in the morning the next day.
A maid specially prepared a brand new Qianyang Sect white gold-threaded outfit for him and put it on carefully. Then someone prepared a special bathtub with some medicinal soup for Lu Sheng to take a bath.
Later, the elder of the Qianyang Sect, an old man named Zhang Shilong, came to the door in person and led him into a carriage to the Fenxiang Temple deep in the county.
There were five carriages going together, and Lu Sheng's was the first in line. Through the translucent curtains, he saw many people waiting on the street on both sides of the roadside.
Most of the people were watching the fun, and a few were whispering. They seemed to know something about the situation, and they stared at the team with awe.
"Our convoy is actually like the officials of the current dynasty, requiring ordinary people to stay away when traveling. This scene is quite good."
Lu Sheng carefully sensed the cars behind him. They were all the same as his. There was an elder and a young man with him.
Elder Zhang Shilong smiled.
"This is a privilege, but it is also our responsibility. Our branch of Qiuyue County, in addition to being responsible for selecting elites and sending them into the clan, is also responsible for the security of the county."